- Hey, guys, it's Justine and today,
we're gonna be unboxing and checking out
the brand new MacBook Air that Apple just released,
and I always get so excited to open stuff up with a knife,
but Apple makes it way too easy, and we don't need a knife.
(comical music)
(gasps) Look at you, look at you.
This is such a great color.
They call it gold, but in my eyes, this is pink.
Oh, that smells good.
Take a smell that, guys.
(sniffs) You know you're smelling your screens right now.
Don't even try to act like you're not.
So it has a 13.3 inch Retina LED display,
1.1 gigahertz quad core Intel Core i5,
512 gig solid state drive with eight gigs of RAM.
It's got the new backlit magic keyboard.
It also has Touch ID, and it weighs 2.8 pounds.
This really is a very powerful tiny little machine,
and you can really do anything you need on this thing.
I was editing videos on the previous version
and now that this one has 8% faster graphics,
that'll definitely help out
in the video production department,
as well as, editing photos, and of course,
playing games and watching YouTube videos.
Let's be real.
I have spilled all of my, I've spilled my drink.
My foot's wet.
Oh god, Justine.
My foot is soaking wet with Yerba Mate right now.
There's still a little bit left. (laughs)
I'm gonna go get another sock and another drink,
and maybe I'll get a towel to clean this up.
(sighs) I'm back.
So let's just look at this beautiful gold color.
It's so light.
That is the appeal of the MacBook Air is how light it is.
This really is a perfect little tiny computer.
So let's turn it on,
let's see what else is inside of the box.
Our USB-C charging cable, the gold stickers.
I really--
- [Siri] To use English as the main language,
press the Return key.
- All right, and last but not least,
is our little USB charging brick.
This is a really great charging brick
I actually use this--
- [Siri] Mac OS contains a built in screen reader
called voiceover, if you know how to use voiceover
press CMD + 5 now.
- When I'm traveling.
- [Siri] To set up your Mac.
- And we are all set up there is nothing better than a nice,
fresh smelling Mac.
Like if this is everything is so clean and new.
The arrow keys are also new so this is to mimic
the 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard,
as you can tell they're way more separated.
So if you're not looking at your keyboard,
you can tell which keys are which,
and that's in comparison to this one
which is the old keyboard,
so that really is a huge difference.
This has been new scissor mechanic keyboard,
there is a lot more give when you press the keys down.
So I just realized my microphone wasn't on.
It's like I've never made a YouTube video before.
So one of the things that's really great
is Apple does have education discounts.
So if you are in school,
you can get this MacBook starting at $899.
For all of us that aren't students, it starts at $999.
It comes in three different colors.
We've got a space gray.
We've got the gold and silver.
There's also two different options depending upon
which storage size.
So well there's the 256 that starts at $899,
and if you want to up the storage capacity there's a 512,
and that's starting at $1199.
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It is really great using this MacBook Air
because it's so small.
I'm so used to traveling with now the 16-inch
MacBook Pro, which considering is quite large.
So having this on a flight or going to classes,
it's so light, it's so small, it's so compact.
But I think what's really important is the fact
that they were able to hit a $999 price point,
plus be able to get all these upgrades.
So three main upgrades, you've got the new keyboard.
You also have a starting configuration of 256 gigs
of storage and it has a faster CPU, a faster GPU
and it'll be able to handle most daily tasks.
And you probably shouldn't flip your computer
around like that, especially me. (laughs)
I do want to do a size comparison though of this
and this 16-inch MacBook Pro. (snaps)
Oh, look what I have here. (laughs)
I do have a dbrand skin on this and it is pink.
So my computer is not actually pink.
So you can definitely see a size different.
I mean this would probably fit in one of my small purses.
This obviously is much bigger.
It is way more powerful.
You really do need to take into consideration,
like what are you using this computer for?
You can definitely get away with editing video on this,
no doubt about it, I will actually do a video test.
So I will prove it to you that yes, you can edit video
on here.
If you want something there's a small form factor,
you want an inexpensive Mac, this is it.
Here you go.
So these speaker now have 2x more bass.
25% more volume.
It also has the three microphone array
that is in the new 16-inch MacBook Pro.
There making a really big deal about that
because they were saying that there's a professional
grade microphone built in top your MacBook already.
And I will say that I've recorded a lot of VO projects,
a bunch of things that people probably would have
thought that I had a professional crazy microphone set up.
But I really just use my microphone on my MacBook
inside of a closet and you would never even know.
Let's go test out the speakers and the microphone.
So I'm gonna go in this closet over here.
It's, I don't even know, I'm not sure if I'm gonna fit.
♪ It's all the same ♪
♪ Only the names will change ♪
♪ Everyday it seems we're wasting way ♪
I'm gonna get a copyright strike.
And you know what if Bon Jovi were to give
me a copyright strike, I would accept it.
Because it's Bon Jovi.
I'm listening to Bon Jovi nonstop.
I've been in the house for a while.
Did I make that?
- With your Crayolas and.
- I did I got out some Sharpies,
I was like I'm gonna make you this really nice
welcome to the Staple Center.
How long have you been on tour?
- February, March and this is April,
this is the third month.
- Oh that's cool, so not too crazy.
- Nah, not too bad.
I'm like 35 shows into it, so I'm not cuckoo.
(guitar chords)
(audience cheers)
- I'm so glad you guys could all be here today.
There's nobody here yet,
but soon this entire place will be filled
with Bon Jovi fans, me included.
These speakers are incredible.
Like, it's actually really really loud.
♪ But know the place where faces are so ♪
It's almost like Jon is here himself.
Now it's time to record some VO.
Normally I don't actually use this closet,
I use a closet that has a lot of clothes in it.
But this is my office closet and I just
have a bunch of gadgets in here.
So there is a little echo,
but I think it sounds pretty good.
Hey guys it's Justine, I'm here in the closet
recording some VO.
This is a nice day.
(dog barking)
There's my dog you can hear him in the background.
That's really all I have to say.
I hope you enjoy it, have a nice day.
So if I sent that to a VO casting agent,
do you think I'd get the job?
That's really all I have to say, I hope you enjoy it.
Have a nice day.
(laughs)
I mean it sounds great.
I don't have to say that it sounds good
because I've used this in many projects
and no one would ever know that I was recording
directly off of my MacBook.
Can I come out now?
- [Man] Oh yeah sure.
- Okay.
So I'm gonna do a real quick edit just to see
how this handles video editing.
I'm gonna be editing a video about the Gnarbox.
You guys may have seen this before,
this is basically like a hard drive,
but you can put SD cards into it
and you can connect this directly to your iPad.
This can act as an external drive.
This is so incredible when you're out on the go.
You can just pop your SD cards in,
you can do automatic backups of cards.
I'll definitely be making another video about this
but if you're wondering what I'm editing.
This is what I'm working on.
So I'm gonna make a little multi-cam clip here.
I'm also gonna be screen capturing this at the same time.
So that's gonna be putting some added pressure
on the system.
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It's running really well.
- [Man] Yeah.
- This is the answer.
I've been a huge fan of Gnarbox for a while.
Not only am I editing a multi-cam, I'm also screen
capturing, like it's running great.
- [Man] Are you using proxys or--
- No.
- [Man] Is it set to better performance?
- I did put better performance.
Yeah, I'm pretty impressed.
So really check this out and test it.
- [Man] Can I just see?
- Yeah, come here.
(audio clip)
- That's impressive.
- I know.
- It's definitely making some noise.
It's chugging.
- It hasn't even rendered into the timeline like nothing.
Like it hasn't transcoded.
I'm editing this basically just raw.
And I'm editing off of this solid state drive
that is not a fast one.
So I forgot about that too.
Well I'm gonna keep editing this
if you guys want to hear full up on how the editing
is going on with the new MacBook Air,
follow me on Twitter or Instagram.
And check out my Instagram stories and I will give
you guys a follow up there.
But so far I'm really excited about this
and I'm really glad that they were able to make
a really great price point but also increase the specs.
I think that's really important.
So I'm gonna go, I'm gonna keep editing.
And let me know if there's anything else
that you guys would like to know about this or anything.
I'll see you guys in the comments.
Bye.
Looks so good.
I think now more than ever people are questioning
what is the perfect computer
or what is the perfect device for me?
I think you really do need to think about
like what are you going to be doing.
If you're doing a lot of high intensive editing,
editing 4K, 8K this might not be the computer
that you do want to choose.
You might want to look into getting more
of the upgrade with the MacBook Pro.
This is the machine that's perfect for doing
word processing, for writing, if you do photo editing.
But if you are looking to do more high production,
then I definitely think that a MacBook Pro
might be right up your alley.
But for every else, like this is an incredible computer.
Let's also go through and see if we can spec out
what the high end specs of this thing can be.
We're gonna add a 1.2 Ghz Quad Core.
Jump to the Gen i7, 16 gigs of RAM, 2 TB of storage.
And that will bring us up to $2129.
So that's a first look at the new MacBook Air.
I am definitely really excited about this.
This is something that I do love taking with me
when I'm traveling or if I'm out on shoots.
I don't want to bring a big computer.
So depending upon your computing needs
I think there's so many different options
that Apple has, but if you are a beginner.
If you're going to school, definitely take advantage
of those educational discounts, because that's huge.
Thank you guys so much for watching,
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
I would love to hear from you guys.
What is the one thing that you are most looking for
in a laptop?
Is it RAM?
Is it storage?
Is it processor speeds?
I'd love to know.
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That's all the things that I'm supposed to tell you
that you have to do. (laughs)
Okay, bye.
(snaps) Okay one second I gotta go get it,
that's how this works. (laughs)
- [Man] That's how I'm gonna edit it.
(Justine laughs)
- (snaps) Oh look what I have here. (laughs)